Our Wonder Room

I have not heard these words before, but I think they may just have crawled in among my top 10 poems. One takes a risk when one invites the Lord       Whether to dine, or talk the afternoon       Away, for always the unexpected soon       Turns up: a woman breaks her precious nard,       … Read more

“The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides.” – Artur Schnabel, pianist (1882-1951) Matthew 14:23 – After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Hmm. When I first considered these two sentences together … Read more

“The most significant change in a person’s life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.” – William J. Johnson I got this quote last night as the intro to my frequent email from the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity. It’s a good one to start every day with.

This one oughta make you go “hmmm?” “We must try to be at one and the same time for the Church and against the Church. They alone can serve her faithfully whose consciences are continually exercised as to whether they ought not, for Christ’s sake, to leave her.” … Alec R. Vidler